I'm trying to create a folder tab using an alias. I can create the tab but it changes to the actual folder path.
If I go into Preferences> Alias and change it to a new path, the folder tab remains the same. Opus can do anything.
What am I missing. Using 11.3 Win 7 x64
Folder tabs remember paths rather than aliases, at least at the moment.
You can make commands which open folder tabs using aliases, but I am not sure exactly what you want to do from the description. How is the folder tab being created and how is it being saved?
I would just like to create a folder tab using the alias Ex: 'Documents' so when I change the path to the alias, the folder tab will also change.
The way the alias works now, you can only create a button for it or type it in using FAYT. It would be great being able to define a folder tab that uses it.
But what does that mean exactly...? Define a folder tab how/where. And then use it how - in what way would you then use what you're talking about?
I'm not sure how else I can explain it.
Step 1. Create an alias called "Documents" that points to C:\Users\username\My Documents
Step 2. Create a new folder tab using the alias name /Documents which would display the contents of C:\Users\username\My Documents
Step 3. If I move the My Documents folder somewhere else, I could just change the alias definition of /Documents and would not have to
recreate a new folder tab.
Best I can do...
Step3 is still not clear, I think? o)
Would you like an already opened tab, which shows "/Documents" to automatically change it's path, whenever you change it for the alias?
That at least is not possible, you would need to close the tab and reopen it for "/Documents". As Leo already said, the tab does not know if it was opened by an alias.
This sounds a bit like your're trying to get something like an "assign", best known from the amiga. The closest to that in windows is using a driveletter, which is mapped to a local folder by "subst.exe" command line tool. Another way might be to create some kind of hard/softlink between directories, so that "C:\Documents" is your path you open in the tab and that will always point to somehwere else (another directory). That linked directory could be moved around, but requires the "C:\Documents" link to be recreated whenever you did so. These two solutions would at give you a fixed path for a tab, while actually showing content of , I think. If that's worth the trouble is another story.. o)
As an aside, don't create something called C:\Documents. You may break things which refer to "C:\Documents and Settings" without quotes.
(Those things are foolish to do so, but they get away with it until you create something matching the path up to the first space.)
Similarly, creating C:\Program will break a lot of things.
I guess I'll just create some toolbar buttons. That sounds the easiest. Thanks to all who responded.
@Leo
Yes, you're right, sorry for my bad example!
There is a windows (explorer) anomaly as well, which can get you in trouble if you use the first part of a system-folder name for a seperate folder.
That didn't come to my mind while writing, weird as it is.